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Guardian.co.uk – July 31, 2011

Something is unraveling before our eyes. From bankers to media-barons, private interests have bankrupted and corrupted the public realm. Power, for so long hidden in the pockets of a cosy elite, has been exposed. Those who wield it have been found wanting – in scruples, in morals and in decency.

Things are now in flux, but will not stay so for long.

Without decisive and sustained action, power will fall back into the hands of a small elite who have their own, and not the public’s interest at heart.

They want to prevent public revulsion turning into public action. But, it’s time for real change. Things cannot be allowed to turn back to business as usual.

Britain can no longer be just the plaything of a handful of powerful, remote interest groups treating the wider public with contempt.

The current press and political scandal is not an isolated event.

It’s the third crisis in quick succession.

First, the bankers and their bonuses, then some politicians and their expenses and now there is the press, profiting from peoples’ pain, grief and private lives.

These crises share common origins.

Left to their own devices politicians, bankers and media moguls could not regulate themselves.

They share a common culture in which greed is good, everyone takes their turn at the trough, and private interest takes precedence over the public good. They have protected each other and left the British people with a financial and political crisis.

They do what they can get away with, not seeming to care for the common life of our country. And, they are scared of only one thing. Us. The public. If public organisations and citizens are vigilant, that elite won’t be able to get away with it again. With the right checks and balances we can put the public interest back into the heart of the system.

Only we, the public, can hold power truly to account by testing whether what happens is in the public interest.

To work out how to do it we call for a new Public Jury for the British public interest to propose reforms of banking, politics, media and the police.

The Jury would be made up of 1,000 citizens drawn as a random sample of the electorate. It will be a jury of our peers. We do not need yet another inquiry in which one elite asks another elite to tell them what cannot be done.

The Jury will be funded out of the public purse, with a paid secretariat with the resources to commission research and call witnesses.

It will have the power to require attendance where persons will be asked by the public to explain themselves.

Reporting within a year of its launch the convention will study and report on:

• Media ownership and the public interest

• The role of the financial sector in the crash

• MP selections and accountability

• Policing and public interest

• How to apply a ‘public interest first’ test more generally to British political and corporate life

Footnote – August 1, 2011

Without hesitation and almost instinctively one wants to endorse the above. Or at least one should. Until you see the first name on the list of signatures, and if you didn’t notice it belongs to one Greg Dyke.

Former head of the BBC from 2000 to 2004, Dyke dutifully supported Tony Blair throughout that time. Indeed, even before his appointment as BBC Director General, Tony Blair was courting Greg Dyke at dinners at Chequers, the prime minister’s country retreat.

One might even say they were “as thick as thieves”.

Thereafter Dyke effectively acted as Blair’s propaganda minister in the run-up to the Iraq invasion; when just about every other BBC current affairs and news broadcast featured references to “Saddam’s Weapons of Mass Destruction”.

As it turned out there were none, of course. But under Dyke the BBC prepared the way on the need to invade Iraq, as did the rest of the corporate media: with groundless speculation, half-truths and in some cases outright lies.

Of course I cannot speak for the others on the list, many of who may be quite sincere. However, in Dyke’s case I would suggest that rather than taking a moral stand he is merely repositioning himself, for his own benefit.

As in a rat deserting a sinking ship.

All confirmation of the longstanding rumour that Dyke was a frequent dinner guest of the Rothschildshas long since been removed from the web. In effect, Dyke’s patrons are covering their tracks. While Dyke himself is trying to infiltrate and no doubt undermine mounting awareness of and opposition to the elite. Ed.

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